ATM skimming may be a crime through the advantage of a customer because it was done by way of stealing an ATM card PIN as the entrance of the transaction. In fact, there are techniques that are not less piracy ATM hacking techniques used by malicious software.
A hacker from IOActive, a leading digital security company based in the U.S. and UK, will reveal two new techniques hijack an ATM in the Black Hat USA conference which is planned to be held in late July 2010 Sin City later. He will present his paper "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines."
"I'm always glad to see the scene in Terminator 2 when John Connor was walking toward the ATM and then brought his Atari device to card reader and take a sheet of money that comes out the ATM machine," said Jack in the Black Hat website. "I think I can do the same thing."
Jack promised to take the two most recent models of ATM machines among the types of ATM machines used by some banks at this time to demonstrate it. According to this technique can release large amounts of money from an ATM, either carried out directly or remotely.
Initially, the discovery techniques will be demonstrated in the same conference in Las Vegas last year. However, the plan failed to do in the last minute for reasons which he called non-technical issues beyond his control at that time.
IOActive berpoetensi states that the techniques used to deplete ATM wicked. It also has warned ATM manufacturers to anticipate weaknesses. Besides expressing ATM plowing techniques, he also will present ways to protect the ATM machines of potential crimes.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The number of visitors and transactions in the Indonesian Computer Festival (ICF) target in 2010 increased 20 percent over the previous year. Chairman of the Foundation of Indonesian Computer Business Association (Apkomindo) Hidayat Tjokrodjojo mention, every time the ICF was held, an increase in the number of visitors and sales that much.
"Until now, that are still favorites are the notebook and netbook. For the notebook, the devotees are already developed. While the netbook despite high sales, but because it's cheap to make its value is not great," said Hidayat, Wednesday (07/14/2010). Unfortunately, he was reluctant to mention the target value from ICF carpet this year.
According to him, trends, or the desktop personal computer sales tend to decline lately. According to him, it is fair because the desktop is normally used for administration of the new office was replaced after five years. While the notebook-of-life for three years and two annual netbook.
"But, if the phone every year the trend is always replaced, so the number of mobile phone sales in the arena of value Indonesia Cellular Show (ICS) in 2010 which was held together ICF is always higher," he added.
ICS and ICF was held starting today until July 18, 2010 at the Jakarta Convention Center with exhibition area of approximately 25,000 square meters. Not much different with ICS and ICF mat last year, the number of participants in the form of computer vendors and mobile operators this year around 350 participants. While the number of visitors to this year's celebration is expected to grow 20 percent from 230 000 to 276 000.
If you are interested visit the ICS and ICF 2010, visitors are subject to rate of $ 5,000 for weekdays and Rp 10,000 on weekends. (Cash / Gentur Putro Teak)
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - broadband Internet customers from Telkom Speedy can now enjoy higher speed access for a fixed fee. Improved access speed is an effort to improve the quality of Telkom's services to its customers and attract potential new customers.
Vice President of Public and Marketing Communication Telkom, Eddy Kurnia said the internet speed is increased from 384 Kbps to 512 Kbps for Socialian packages, from 512 Kbps to 1 Mbps for packet load, and 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps for Game Pack. The tariff rate to subscribe to stay long.
"If the note, the rate drops to Speedy actually cheaper because the same price, but the higher speed internet so that added comfort," said Eddy Kurnia in a press release on Wednesday (07/07/2010).
Besides increasing the speed of Speedy, Telkom will also launch a new package that is expected to meet the various needs of customers of fast internet access. Speedy is also not simply providing Internet connectivity, but it was rich with a variety of content, such as the Channel Balls (www.kanalbola.com), to see the English Premier League football matches and the Italian League live streaming, as well as Fulltrek (www.fulltrek.com) to download downloadable video and original music. In addition, there konetn diverse educational and games.
For Telkom, broadband Internet service is believed to be one of the most promising line of business in Indonesia in 2010. Speedy is expected to be pulled up to two million subscribers by the end of 2010 from a range of 1.3 million subscribers today.
According to Eddy Kurnia, from 1.3 million subscribers in April 2010 Speedy approximately 450 000. Among them are domiciled in the Greater Jakarta area. Most of the others to reach no less than 378 cities across Indonesia. Telkom Speedy and will continue to develop not only in urban areas, but also in cities and remote areas.
Connecticut, KOMPAS.com - EBay Inc., the leading online commerce site in the United States, and PayPal Inc. sued for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars. Both sites have been accused of violating patents related XPRT Ventures LLC online commerce payment system (e-commerce).
XPRT, a company based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has filed suit to the District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In its lawsuit, pointing XPRT EBay violating six patents for online payments. In addition, the site also was accused of leaking trade secrets by distributing information on patent applications.
XPRT EBay considers these actions are not fair. They think EBay has stolen the idea and the payment method they found.
EBay would not speak much about this lawsuit. "We are studying the lawsuit," said Alina Piancentino, EBay spokesman in San Jose, California. (Cash / Edy Can)
"We have bought the company to improve the performance of the search engines become better and make the web become more useful for many people," said Jack Menzel, Director of Product Management of Google, in an official company blog post last week.
Metaweb is a database company based in San Francisco, USA, which was founded in 2005. The company is creating a public database called freebase contains more than 12 million items, including films, books, television shows, and the company.
Google emphasized that this acquisition will not change policy towards Metaweb freebase as a database service is free and open to the entire world. "We believe by increasing the freebase will enhance the extraordinary resources for improving the web in order to be richer for everyone," says Menzel.
In recent years, Google is aggressively acquiring other companies to strengthen its services, both on small firms and large size. Prior to Metaweb, the company which Google bought online is ITA Software, the provider of flight information services and applications.
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